MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS FOR
Companies
Discover new ways to tie belonging efforts directly to business impact, helping your company innovate, improve its bottom line, and attract and retain exceptional employees.
Business Impact and Strategic Support
Our community thrives on transparent sharing, enabling you to tap into a wealth of knowledge and resources, save time and money, and adopt innovative approaches that meet evolving workforce needs. Whether it’s advancing your inclusion initiatives or tying them to business impact, joining OTA can make it easier every step of the way.
A Collaborative Community of Peer Organizations
OTA provides your company with access to a powerful network of belonging professionals who understand the business side of inclusion and are working together to align inclusion efforts with company goals. Your company will benefit from transparent sharing, collaboration, and the opportunity to learn from others’ successes and lessons. Together, we can create a ripple effect of positive change across industries as we share, innovate and develop best practices that empower your work and your organization.
Support Across Your Organization
OTA isn’t just for belonging and inclusion officers, we also support marketing and communications officers, government affairs staff, HR, legal and the C-suite.
Exceptional Content and Tools to Support Your Business Goals
Open to All strives to deliver exceptional resources for every stage of your inclusion journey. OTA provides top-tier content spanning foundational principles to cutting-edge thought leadership and innovation. Whether your company is looking to deepen your knowledge of inclusion basics or tie initiatives to business impact, our learning opportunities equip companies with the tools they need to more easily navigate this ever-evolving landscape.
Increased Effectiveness and Impact of Belonging Staff
Inclusion officers frequently tell us how challenging, exhausting, and even isolating their jobs can be. Especially in times of political and social upheaval, having a network of like-minded individuals can make all the difference. Providing a support network for your belonging staff increases innovation, reduces burnout and turnover, and increases ability to have impact.
Our Community
OTA helps companies not only successfully navigate today’s complexities — but innovate and thrive.
Belonging initiatives are becoming increasingly complex to navigate. Open to All’s mission and approach are to help companies that are authentically on the journey to create a culture of belonging. Our approach is rooted in partnership and support as opposed to lecturing or blaming companies for not being further along or for not being perfect.
We work with a range of companies including those who are innovating DEI practices and integrating them throughout every part of their company, to those who are struggling in the current political environment or who don’t have full C-suite buy-in.
We understand public engagement isn’t for everyone. We have options for companies including those who want to publicly be on the forefront—as well as those who want to participate, but not publicly.
Open to All Resources
In addition to our open-sourced resources on our website, Open to All has many resources only available to our members, including:
Employee Resource Group Guidebook
OTA launched a 100+ page Employee Resource Group Leadership Guidebook, published in partnership with Capri Holdings/Michael Kors and Seramount. We surveyed OTA members about their ERG programs and wrote case studies to address such topics as including part-time retail sales associates, best practices for working with communities of faith, intersecting identities (such as LGBTQ people of color), and how to manage ERGs globally.
Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship Program Pilot Blueprint
VF Corporation’s Limitless Learning Retail Apprenticeship program is a year-long program that grants retail associates the chance to develop new skills and make connections in a corporate setting. Open to All and VFC collaborated to create a blueprint for those interested in starting their own pilot apprenticeship program.
Managing Crisis: An Open to All Toolkit
In partnership with the Retail Industry Leaders Association, Right To Be, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, OTA produced a toolkit to manage crisis communications, public safety, brand reputation, protecting employees and customers from harassment and violence, and hearing from survivors and loved ones of hate-motivated violence, including retail locations.
We have three e-learnings available to Open to All members:
- Unconscious Bias Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Allyship and Advocacy Training produced in partnership with Ralph Lauren.
- Reduce Racial Bias in Retail Training produced in partnership with Mattingly Solutions.
Interactive Programming
One of Open to All’s most popular offerings is our monthly briefing series. Some topics we covered recently:
- How to best support Muslim employees and customers during Ramadan presented by Muslim Advocates
- Addressing the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes with the Anti-Defamation League,
- Combatting anti-AAPI hate with Asian Americans Advancing Justice—AAJC;
- Legal analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action and implications for corporations with Legal Defense Fund
- Access and accommodation—disability inclusion in the workplace presented by the American Association of People with Disabilities and Disability: IN
- An overview of national and state-level attacks on LGBTQ people with the Movement Advancement Project.
Our briefings are recorded for members to watch at their leisure and to share internally. We publish a blog post following each briefing.
Join Open to All today
We’re here to listen, support, and uplift each other as we champion inclusion and belonging, making your job easier.